Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.